A fun and enjoyable story. I really like the situation, the setup, and this approach to bringing some passion and fire back to their relationship.
What I really want though is a little more insight into what the main characters are thinking. Yes, I get and see that she needed the real risk, the threat and the fear of loosing and being given to someone else to really get, experience and enjoy her fantasy. But, even as she drove this point home, and refused to be put on show without this fear, this risk, she still seemed to believe, as a given, that it could never happen.
I don't quite get this. Yes, I know they had a system, but to make the threat of loosing, of being given to someone else so completely real, yet to really believe that it could, would never happen? This just doesn't quite make sense to me.
At the same time, I would love to have a sense of what was going through Steve's mind at the end. She is sure that he knew the signal, and decided to let the cards fall where they fell regardless. In a way I actually agree with this version of events, after all, if she was this desperate for the threat, the fantasy to be real and realised, then she had to be ready to see it all of the way through, doesn't she?